Velcro on Boss pedals and adhesion techniques

[Officer Bukowski]

You can buy blank plates for boss pedals and wreck those with all the industrial velcro you want and save the originals. I'm pretty sure they sell them at smallbearelec.com

[mmelnick]

Not likely i'm gonna sell them, I just like them mint, and also, if I decide I want to use one or two pedals instead of the whole board the rubber would actually come in handy.
I'm gonna try flipping the backs around and see if that works.

[mmelnick]

You can buy blank plates for boss pedals and wreck those with all the industrial velcro you want and save the originals. I'm pretty sure they sell them at smallbearelec.com

Cool tip - is this the plate?
http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=1066

I'm reading that flipping the plate works. Gonna try that today.

[hbombgraphics]

You could also cut the velcro into skinny strips and put them on either side of the label on boss pedals...no need for the entire bottom of the pedal to be covered. Two 1/2" strips from the top to the bottom should hold anything down.

This works:
I have thin strips on the top and bottom of my boss pedals (the ones I didn't ruin first anyway!)


If you are going to sip tie you can always zip tie a flat plate to the pedal and then velcro that to the board.

I once epoxied all my pedals down to my board with a 2 part epoxy, they were pretty beat up from use at the time and it made me an indestructable board for about 2 years of shows, I did have to pry them all off after which wasn't pretty.
Probably won't ever do that again.

[hbombgraphics]

Also: If you need some spare bottoms I think I have a few in my parts bin, not much use for them, you could just trash those and keep yours mint:
Along the epoxy lines you can actually fill in the gap in the bottom with the epoxy sand it smooth and apply the velcro.

I should have 2 bottoms at home that I have pretty much no use for.
Let me know if you want em

[mmelnick]

Also: If you need some spare bottoms I think I have a few in my parts bin, not much use for them, you could just trash those and keep yours mint:
Along the epoxy lines you can actually fill in the gap in the bottom with the epoxy sand it smooth and apply the velcro.

I should have 2 bottoms at home that I have pretty much no use for.
Let me know if you want em

Much thanks - i'll let you know

Check this out

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f222/fx-d ... es-736610/

Really pricey but nice

[hbombgraphics]

Those are cool looking, for 20 bucks you could buy a used DS1 and steal the bottom.

Then you would have a few DS1 pedals lying around with no bottoms (like winnie the pooh)

[mmelnick]

Flipping the plates didn't work, at least on my Boss Fuzz. I just velcroed the edges and it seemed to work. Had to remove the rubber on the Grunge pedal but that's my go-to pedal so fuck it. I've been through like 8 already anyway lol

Thanks for all the tips everyone. Appreciate it.

[Officer Bukowski]

You can buy blank plates for boss pedals and wreck those with all the industrial velcro you want and save the originals. I'm pretty sure they sell them at smallbearelec.com

Cool tip - is this the plate?
http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=1066

I'm reading that flipping the plate works. Gonna try that today.

No those are for the type of enclosure that Zvex uses.

I just looked for them at smallbear and now I can't find them. I know I've seen them somewhere though. I'll try to find them.

[deathmonkey]

I use these guys on my boss pedals
http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=967

doesn;t mess up the middle sticker, anything. And the glue sticks to the rubber like nobodies business.


and for the wah/volume pedal, I bought a pedal board from these guys and got this idea from them

http://nycpedalboards.com/options.html#plat

the thing is really just a piece of wood that has 4 holes drilled for the feet of the pedal. works really nicely.

[McSpunckle]

[quote="Gone Fission"(It also occurs to me that nice builders in Hammond-type boxes would be truly awesome if they supplied their pedals with two bottom plates, one for feet, one for velcro.)[/quote]

Alas, they only come with one lid.

I've been kinda accumulating lids over the last year, though. Hit me up if you need some.

[Hacken]

Flip the back plate on the boss pedal and your good to go.

[mmelnick]

Those are all good ideas! I like the ny pedalboard volume pedal plate, but I made one myself. I had some paint stirrers that I got from Home Depot and stacked 2 of them to rise over the bump, then cut them to the size of the top and bottom of the volume pedal, painted them, then screwed them in place of the rubber feet. Velcroed them and i was good ta go.



Just waiting on a few cables now and i'm done